linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1206220125410.7671@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:30:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, virtualization@...ts.osdl.org,
	ohering@...e.com, apw@...onical.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] drivers: hv: kvp

On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:

> This patchset expands the KVP (Key Value Pair) functionality to
> implement the mechanism to get/set IP addresses in the guest. This
> functionality is used in Windows Server 2012 to implement VM
> replication functionality. The way IP configuration information
> is managed is distro specific. The current implementation supports
> RedHat way of doing things. We will expand support to other distros
> incrementally. 
> 
So there is going to be a continuous flow of patches to add support for 
new distros (Arch Linux, Slackware, Linux Mint, SuSE, Debian, etc etc) and 
if different versions of a distro handles things differently then you are 
also going to deal with that? Might be fine, but it just sounds a bit 
scary to me to try to support m different distros, each in n different 
versions from the kernel... Couldn't this somehow be done once and for all 
in a distro neutral way?
Just asking :-)

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